Try-box and indicator for spirit-cisterns



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J. GNADINGER, Jr.

TRY BOX AND INDICATOR FOR SPIRIT OISTERNS.

I No. 270,416. Patented Jan. 9,1883.

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top or cover to allow the instruments to be in- .tially described and represented in my afore- UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE,

JOHN GNADINGER, JR, OF PARIS,.KENTUOKY.

TRY-BOX AND INDICATOR FOR SPIRIT-CI STERNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,416, dated January 9, 1883.

Application filed October 17, I882. (Modem To all whom at may concern;

Be it known that 1, JOHN GNADINGER, Jr., of Paris, in the county of Bourbon and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Try-Box and Indicator for Spirit-Uisterns, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improvemeutof the improved try-box and indicator for spirit-cisterns described and claimed in apatent heretofore granted to me, the said improvement being a compressed-air attachment to the said try-box and indicator to be used for expelling the liqnor from the glass tube of the try-box and allowing it to fill again as often as desired with fresh samples for obtaining numerous and thereby more reliable tests than can be obtained from one sample; and the attachment is also designed, to be employed for forcing air into the liquor contained in the cistern for agitating and purifying it.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming partot' this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a side elevation ot my aforesaid improved try-box and indicator with the'compressed-air attachment which new propose; and Fig. 2 is a detail section of the top of the try-box and indicator, showing the manner of connecting the attachment.

(t represents the cistern containing. the spirits to be tried and indicated; Z), the glass tube of the try-box and indicator; 0, the globe-valve connection for admitting the liquorinto the tube; (Z, the top connection for supporting the upper end of the glass tube and adjusting it tor perpendicular position, all being substansaid patent, the glass tube having removable serted in the liquor contained in the glass for testing the quality and temperature. The scale 0 on the side of the cistern indicates the heightqf the liquor in the tube b, and thereby shows the quantity contained in the cistern. i

For the purpose of forcing the liquor back out of the glass tube into the cistern after being tried to admit a fresh sample, I now propose to connect an air-compressing pump, f, or an intervening compressed-air receiver, 9, with the glass tube to force in the air either directly from the pump or from the receiver wuen required, the connection being preferably by a flexible tube, It, at ached to aremovable plug, 2', screwing into the top of the tube, and having a nipple,j, over which the end of the tube is stretched; and for the purpose of allowing the air to escape from the glass tube when it is desired to allow a new sample ot'liqnor to flow in, the plug is provided with a valve, l, which is held up to its seat by a spring, m, and has a stem, n, extending up through the top of the plug, for pressing the valve down by the finger, the cock 0 in the air-supply pipe It being shut. It will be seen that with this attachment the usefulness of the try-box and indicator is considerably increased.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, anti desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with glass tube 1) of a try-box and indicator for a liquor-cistern, of a compressed-air attachment, substantially as described, for injecting air to change the samples and agitate the'hquor in the cistern, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the glass tube 7) of a try-box and indicator for a liquor-cistern,

ot' a compressed-air attachment, substantially as described, and a valve, Z, for the escape of the air when required, substantially as specitied.

3. The combination of the removable plugs i, having the valve l, and compressed-air pipe It, with the glass tube I), of an indicator and try-box for liquor-cisterns, substantially as described.

' JOHL\ GNADINGER, JR. Vitnesses:

Jno. U. BRENT, ELLIOTT KELLY. 

